Podcast of ExBem: Episode 60 : The Illness Sickening Our Society
Release Date: 08/02/2022
Podcast of ExBem: Episode 68 : Closing the "Sale"
Podcast of ExBEM
I once thought that having made a diagnosis and recommended its treatment that I could now move to the next patient. Experience has taught me however, that it is now that the crucial work begins.
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Podcast of ExBem: Episode 67 : Why Artificial Intelligence Can't Do my Job (Yet)
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Ready or not artificial intelligence is here. Does this mean that physicians are soon to be out of a job? On this episode I explain why our positions are secure, at least for now....
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Podcast of ExBem : Episode 66 : Lessons From My Patient Experience
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After a month to process my emergency appendectomy, on this episode I describe my "take aways" from my encounter, or should I say collision, with modern American medicine.
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Podcast of ExBem: Episode 65 : The Other End of the Stethoscope- When the Doctor Needs a Doctor
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I have had little experience being a patient... until now. On this episode I share what it was like on the other end of the stethoscope, or in my case the scalpel.
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Podcast of ExBem: Episode 64 : The "Product" That We Sell
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Hospital administration continually reminds me that emergency medicine is a business. If so, this begs the question - what are we selling? On this episode I describe why my recent experience suggests that what we are selling is not really what our patients are looking to buy.
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Podcast of ExBem: Episode 63 : What an Emergency Physician is Not
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Enormous pressure is being applied to turn emergency departments and the specialists who run them into something the were not meant to be. This shift in focus threatens both our medical system and our patients. On this episode I describe these changes and their origins.
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Podcast of ExBem: Episode 62 : Requiem for a Pandemic
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On this episode I present an epitaph for the Coronavirus pandemic. I describe how and why it ended and discuss how we were convinced to make sacrifices and fight in a war that never existed.
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Podcast of ExBem: Episode 61 : A Remedy for a Sick Society
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After two episodes spent defining the problem, on this offering I outline a prescription to treat our sick society. We have the tools, do we have the will to try something new?
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Podcast of ExBem: Episode 60 : The Illness Sickening Our Society
Podcast of ExBEM
If recent events reflect an American society that has become sick, what is the illness affecting us and how did it arise? On this episode I argue that our attempts to engineer a " Great Society" have collided with human nature and the results have not been those expected.
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Podcast of ExBem: Episode 59 : Curing a Sick Society
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Do recent events prove that our society is sick? I believe that they do. Does 40 years of experience caring for sick individuals justify my comentary discussing why it is sick and what can be done to cure it? Decide for yourself.
info_outlineIf recent events reflect an American society that has become sick, what is the illness affecting us and how did it arise? On this episode I argue that our attempts to engineer a " Great Society" have collided with human nature and the results have not been those expected.